Topic: Leukemia
Education Born in Ottawa, Eaves moved at an early age to Nova Scotia. Interested in science, he attended Acadia University and graduated with a BSc in Biology and Mathematics in 1962. He then went to Dalhousie University, completing his MSc in cell ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers in Japan have designed a test to identify patients who are likely to be resistant to imatinib, the standard drug for treating leukemia or cancer of the blood cells. Such a test is important as imatinib resistance ...
Eleven-year-old actress Shannon Tavarez should have been belting out songs in her starring role as Nala in Broadway's "The Lion King." Instead, the 78-pound actress lay curled on a hospital bed as a doctor injected her spine with her first dose of ...
Sherrie Cramer breaks into stifled sobs as she nears the dirt-streaked former orphanage in China where her daughter lived as a severely malnourished infant. Once again, Cramer is fighting to keep the child she adopted alive. But this time, it's a battle ...
A court-ordered study has found that electromagnetic waves beamed by Vatican Radio leave residents living near the station's antennas at a higher risk of cancer, Italian media said Wednesday. "There has been an important, coherent and meaningful correlation between exposure to Vatican ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Glivec, from Novartis, should not be used in patients who have had a gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) removed by surgery, Britain's health cost watchdog said in draft guidance on Friday. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), ...
FDA says Pfizer will voluntarily pull leukemia drug that failed to increase survivalFederal health regulators say Pfizer has agreed to pull a leukemia drug off the market after a follow-up study showed it failed to slow the disease. The Food and Drug ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG won wider U.S. approval for its leukemia drug Tasigna to treat a rare form of the blood cancer at an earlier stage of the disease, the Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday. Tasigna ...
DENVER (Reuters Life!) - When Brandon and Lindsay McElhinney took to the dance floor at a prom at Denver's Westin Tabor Center this week, there was just one thing on their mind -- having a good time. The newly-weds, dressed for a ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bristol-Myers Squibb's cancer drug Sprycel may be superior to the already highly effective standard medicine Gleevec in treating newly diagnosed patients with chronic myeloid leukemia, according to results of a clinical trial. Sprycel, known chemically as dasatinib, is ...
